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Sunday, 9 October 2011

Free O'Keefe for Kindle

Chap O'Keefe is one of those writers who for decades has been keeping
the western flame burning - together with other authors from Robert
Hale's Black Horse Western imprint, the author has been delivering
thrilling western adventures, ignoring the fact that mainstream
bookstores seemed to have forsaken the genre and taking heart in the
large readership gained from the public libraries. Indeed until recent
years Libraries provided the main market for the western, but now with
the digital revolution westerns are as easy to find as any other genre -
and that, dear reader, is how it should be.

Much
of Chap O'Keefe's impressive back list is now available for the Kindle,
thanks to the author's own publishing imprint which truly deserves to
be a success. These days writers have to do all they can to maximise the
potential of their work and ensuring the books are available digitally
for the new breed of western reader is something to be applauded. The
books have to be out there if we are to entice new readers to the joys
of the genre.

"... what kept me going was O'Keefe's sensitive approach
to the scenes and his interweaving of the oppressive lives
that women had to lead in the 19th century into the book... Dillard's determination
to help Liberty as his number one priority endeared
him to me forever. It's an action-driven novel and a page-turner
that will keep you going until the very end. And the end is worth
all the discomfort you feel when reading about Liberty's helplessness:
the ending is chaotic, surprising and actually pretty funny. Or maybe
that's just my take on it because I love it when women who have been victimized
come back and get theirs. Revenge can be so sweet."– Laurie Powers, grand-daughter of
pulp legend Paul S.Powers, talking about Liberty and a Law Badge.

"You could as well have been watching a movie as
reading a book. . . O'Keefe writes westerns with the
coolness of a hired gun."
– New Zealand Herald

And here's how the promo works - Buy any O'Keefe Kindle ebook, except The Sheriff and the Widow,
which is already subject to a special-price promotion, and you get
to choose any other O'Keefe ebook FREE, supplied to you as a PDF
file you can read on your ereader!

Send us a copy
of the Amazon sales number, and name the second book you want, which
can be any of the five, including The Sheriff and the Widow,
if that's your preference.

Simply email the
Tainted Archive at garydobbs@hotmail.co.uk with the words O'Keefe Kindle
in the subject line. Include your choice of free book and the number on your Amazon sales reciept and I will pass your details onto Chap O'Keefe
who will promptly send out your free eBook.

1 comment:

The reviewers have been especially generous about Doomsday Mesa. As well as Steve M's fine piece at Western Fiction Review, US reviewer Cullen Gallagher has another at http://www.pulpserenade.com/2011/10/doomsday-mesa-by-chap-okeefe.html

Although I have no illusions about our westerns being highbrow imperishable literature (thank goodness they aren't!), it's good to see the novels being taken seriously by critics well able to bring perceptive analysis to bear. A healthy development.

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Actor and novelist. As an actor I have appeared in Doctor Who, Torchwood, Gavin and Stacey, Moonmonkeys, Larkrise to Candleford, The Reverend, The Risen.
As a writer I write westerns for the Black Horse Western imprint using the name Jack Martin. Under my own name I am responsible for several novels including the popular Granny Smith series. And using the name Vincent Stark I have written some pretty disturbing stuff.

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